Colonel Sir George Everest - Crickhowell

Colonel Sir George Everest was born on 4 July 1790 and was commissioned into the Royal Artillery, in 1818, Lt. Everest was appointed as assistant to Colonel William Lambton who had started the Great Trigonometrical Survey of the sub-continent in 1806. Everest was largely responsible for completing the section of the Great Trigonometric Survey of India along the meridian arc from the south of India extending north to Nepal, a distance of approximately 2,400 kilometres (1,500 mi). The survey was started by On Lambton's death in 1862 he succeeded to the post of superintendent of the survey and in 1830 was appointed Surveyor General of India.

In 1865, Mount Everest was named in his honour despite his objections.

Everest retired in 1843 and returned to live in the United Kingdom, where he became a Fellow of the Royal Society.

He was knighted in 1861 and in 1862, and was elected Vice-President of the Royal Geographical Society.

He died in London on the 1^st December 1866 and is buried in St Andrew's Church, Hove, near Brighton.